Accordian player Flaco Jimenez performs live on stage at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 19th July 1987 (Frans Schellekens/Redferns) Leonardo ‘Flaco’ Jiménez, legendary Mexican American ...

The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flaco Jiménez, the Tejano music icon whose virtuosic accordion playing and pioneering contributions to conjunto and Tex-Mex music ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2025 edition of Luminaria will kick off with a tribute San Antonio music superstar Flaco Jimenez, who died July 31. (Mark ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Grammy award-winning conjunto icon Flaco Jimenez died Thursday night, his family reported on his Facebook page. He was 86. The San Antonio-born accordionist died surrounded by ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of conjunto, Tejano and Tex-Mex music, died Thursday. He was 86.

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Famed Tejano singer-songwriter and master accordionist Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez has died. He was 86. Jiménez’s family shared the news of the musician’s death on his official Facebook page Thursday ...

The accordion playing of Flaco Jimenez, seen here performing during the 2014 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., came to define contujo and ...